2012, 2014 and 2016: Visiting Professor, Pitzer College, Los Angeles

2014-: Honorary Fellow, International Centre for the History and Culture of Sport, De Montfort University

Courses included The Political Economy of Global Football, the History of the Olympics and Urban Politics and Policy.

2012: Taught sport and citizen’s journalism courses for young people in association with the Watershed Arts Cinema and the Cultural Olympiad in the South West.  Working with Ujima Community Radio and the University of Bristol designing and delivering citizen journalism projects for young people as part of the university’s widening participation programme.

2005-2012: Part-time lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, courses include Deep Play: Global Sport and the Modern World, The Politics of the Olympics, and a module on Globalization and Culture on the Sociology M.Sc. Wrote and designed an on-line course on global sport for the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University.

2005-2011:  Educational and mentoring  projects with Watershed Arts Cinema, Bristol City and Bristol Rovers football study centres and the University of the First Age, teaching primary and secondary school. Writer-in-Residence at the Bath Literary Festival, working on sports writing projects for kids.

2005-2012: Guest lecturer at Birkbeck College; The London School of Economics; De Monfort University, Leicester;  York University, Toronto;  University of California at San Diego;  Pitzer College, Los Angeles; Michigan State University; Occidental College, Los Angeles;